Re: My boss want to kill debian, please help !
Well, i used what you said, the 2.6.10 kernel from sid (i didn't find
any 2.6.10-4, but i got 2.6.10, patched by debian team, and that is
what i am using), 1 on board e1000, 2 new e1000 cards, and that crappy
e100
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:05:03 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, George Alexandru Dragoi wrote:
> > and everything got back to normal (guess how charming the tech manager
> > has begun to talk about debian :( .
> > this is the lspci line about that e100:
>
> Heh.
>
> Still, to make things clear. The *hardware* issue with e100 that I know off
> causes the e100 PHY (not the machine. not the PCI bus. not even the entire
> e100 board) to lock up. Nothing gets sent, nothing is received. The driver
> resets the PHY after about 30s I think. It tells you that it thinks the
> hardware bug is present, and displays something to the effect of "foo
> workaround activated" on startup.
>
> Also, there's something else I should point out: the debian *stable* kernel
> is too old (I won't say "crap", but it is certainly useless for what I need
> it). Get the Debian kernel in testing or sid, after verifying that it is
> currently sane (as of this writing, 2.6.10-4 and 2.4.27-8, both are sane).
> Backporting policy is well and good, but it doesn't work for the kernel if
> you are using non-ancient, non-stale hardware.
>
> The e100/e1000 drivers have had a *ton* of fixes in the latest revisions
> (mostly due to new features such as NAPI, but...)
>
> My experiences with NICs tell me that you get about 1% chance of receiving a
> bad one. I got a 3COM that would cause PCI busmaster errors during high
> loads after a while, and a e100 that would hang the entire machine. But
> they were defective parts, and would have hung FreeBSD just the same...
>
> --
> "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
> them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
> where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
> Henrique Holschuh
>
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